NHS Day 2021: University Celebrates Student Nurses as They Continue to Provide Frontline Support to Pandemic Response

Commemorations will take place across the country as the National Health Services turns 73 on Monday 5th July 2021.

This year, NHS Day offers an opportunity to show our thanks to the frontline staff who worked tirelessly throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, and to recognise the thousands of students and graduates who stepped up to work alongside them.

Final-year student nurses at the University of Lincoln were among those who found themselves working together with their mentors at the height of the global pandemic, providing invaluable support to healthcare workers, and indeed those patients affected by Covid-19.

Now student nurses are stepping up once again to help in the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccination programme in Lincolnshire.

Dr Sharon Black, the University’s Director of Nurse Education, said: “We had more than 100 final-year nursing students deployed working with our Lincolnshire NHS partners at the height of the pandemic. We also supported our local NHS partners by undertaking Fundamental Clinical Skills training for over 60 volunteers who entered the front line as support staff in the NHS; many of those who volunteered were also University of Lincoln students.

“We continue to work closely with our partners to ensure the education and training needs of the evolving workforce are met across nursing, allied health professions and social work.

“The University is proud to be able to help in the vaccination programme and so many of our student nurses have gone above and beyond to help with the successful rollout.

“Our partnership working with Health Education England and NHS Trusts across the East Midlands Region has been a key component of ensuring our students were able to continue with their studies, and to contribute to meeting the care demands placed on healthcare teams during the national pandemic.

“Our team are hugely impressed with the resilience and motivation many of our students demonstrated whilst under extreme pressure during this difficult 15 months, and this embodies the values of the NHS for which we are all very proud to be associated.”

At the University of Lincoln, student nurses learn alongside hundreds of future healthcare professionals in the School of Health and Social Care where degree courses include Paramedic Science, Social Work, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy.

Emma Jubbs, Assistant Director (Recruitment), said: “There has been huge interest in our healthcare courses this year and the new Lincoln Medical School, which has brought a welcome boost to the healthcare community, both in Lincolnshire and nationally.

“We are witnessing a new age of altruism, where people are showing, now more than ever, it’s important to be kind. “There are still opportunities to join the University of Lincoln this autumn, and lots of ways to find out more. We are holding campus tours every Wednesday and Friday, and on Saturdays during July. We also have virtual open days taking place on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th July.”

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